Example sentences of "far as [pron] can " in BNC.

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1 Campbell 's hard-working side are still trying to sort out their system , which involves a spare defender and , as far as one can see , a good deal of improvisation .
2 Mr de Klerk 's main criterion , as far as one can tell , in deciding who is released first is to attempt to minimise the chances of mass political gatherings giving way to violence and , the great nightmare , loss of government control .
3 As far as one can assess the merit of Levin 's text in relation to its subject , it seems somewhat implausible that Debord can be all the things for which he is proclaimed .
4 As far as one can tell from his letters , he was pleased with it although it did not sell .
5 As far as one can foresee at the moment , the IDP will make a valuable contribution to the development or fish farming , which is one of the natural growth industries for the area .
6 Other experimenters have used different forms of apparatus with layouts that seem very unlikely , as far as one can tell , to induce such strategies .
7 All but two of the books reviewed were opposed to testing , as far as one can tell from the reviews , and were praised for their position .
8 In so far as one can single out a starting-point in Althusser 's exposition , it is Marx 's critique of homo oeconomicus .
9 It is difficult to form any clear conception of what these activities would be like if undertaken in isolation but so far as one can form such a conception it is of something essentially futile .
10 So far as one can tell from the scanty evidence available they had been something short of that .
11 So far as one can judge , the women 's resistance movement was formed towards the end of June 1910 , that is while talks were still inconclusive , and before the events reported above led the management of Neill 's and Morrison & Gibb 's to sign the memorial .
12 It is an undistinguished spit of land , barely afloat so far as one can see , but it has in its time hosted some very high-level exchanges of civilities and even persons between the two countries .
13 Others would admit , indeed require , that higher education should embody rationality , and in so far as one can believe or practice that , it becomes a cultural pattern .
14 It is important to distinguish , as far as one can , between behaviour which wordlessly betrays information , behaviour , that is , from which an onlooker may glean something , and non-verbal behaviour which is performed with the express purpose of communicating this or that information .
15 ‘ One intervenes to protect competition , to ensure so far as one can that competition continues to exist in the marketplace .
16 ‘ So far as one can understand it , ’ says Freddie .
17 They uniformly show young , narrow-shouldered , and in so far as one can see through the draperies , narrow-hipped , flat-chested women with long pale hands which have clearly never done a stroke of work .
18 ‘ And , so far as one can tell , he regretted it ever after . ’
19 Merulo 's Canzoni … fatte alla Francese ( 1592 , 1606 , and 1611 ) treat their originals , so far as one can trace them , with great freedom of keyboard texture .
20 As discussed above , in Mehmed II 's time there were , as far as one can tell , basically three grades of medreses above the 40-akce level : and the Sahn .
21 It needs to be emphasized , however , that such a conclusion would be in despite of the earliest biographical sources , the author of one of which was contemporary in time , if distant in space , and also , as far as one can judge , of the chronological lists and would therefore constitute important evidence of the limitations of these source materials .
22 Language is not just the means of communication in literature , but , in so far as one can say literature has a content , language in all its opacity is also the content of literature .
23 The list of such marked words is not a particularly long one : for the relevant parts of the body we have vit , coilles , con and cul which correspond in meaning , and , as far as one can tell , in tone , to current English prick , balls , cunt and arse ; as actions foutre ( fuck ) or occasionally alternatives such as corber ( lay ) ; as bodily excretions merde and pet ( shit ; fart ) .
24 In fact , in so far as one can detect a firm line in his early Algerian policy , it was a policy which aimed to achieve association — i.e. cooperation between France and a more autonomous but not fully independent Algeria .
25 Childebert 's tax inspectors then tried to institute the same reforms in Tours , but Gregory claimed that the city was exempt , and related the history of exemption since the time of Chlothar I. However , if reorganization had not threatened Tours , it is doubtful whether we would have heard of the perfectly sensible arrangements at Poitiers , which suggest not only that taxation was normal in the Merovingian kingdom , but also that it could be organized efficiently , and so far as one can see , fairly .
26 And it is true that whereas on the whole Pound managed his amorous career with more decorum than Shelley , still the pattern was , so far as we can discern , not very different .
27 We in the Royal Air Force , if you ask for our professional advice , are convinced that we will require manned aircraft as far as we can see to supplement the missile in both the offensive and defensive roles .
28 An executive said : ‘ We 're trying as far as we can to ensure that our business operates normally .
29 The syllabus includes the ‘ core ’ of chemistry drawn up by the Standing Conference on University Entrance in 1983 , and as far as we can tell is also likely to include the new chemistry core under construction by the School Examination and Assessment Council .
30 If time permits , we would be happy to accommodate you as far as we can .
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